Kraft Cracker False Ad Class Denied Cert. In Round 2

Law360, Los Angeles (April 26, 2012, 6:01 PM EDT) -- A California federal judge Thursday refused for a second time to certify a class of consumers seeking damages for allegedly misleading labels on Kraft Foods Inc. products, saying calculating damages would be unmanageable, but allowed the plaintiffs to seek an injunction blocking the misleading labels.

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu, who denied a certification motion in the case in September, said that plaintiffs Evangeline Red and Rachel Whitt had addressed his concerns about an overbroad class by requesting subclasses for consumers who purchased each of...